Overview
Background
I am a political economist with diverse research interests, traversing the fields of security, development and aid, governance, political geography and international relations. I am particularly interested in understanding the evolving nature of statehood and political agency under conditions of globalisation. My work focuses on Asia and the Pacific. I have written extensively on rising powers (specifically China), security governance, statebuilding, non-traditional security, risk and risk management, regional governance and Australian development and security policy. I was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2021-25) to examine emerging competition over international development financing projects in Asia and the Pacific. My latest book, co-authored with Dr Lee Jones, is Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise, out in 2021 with Cambridge University Press. My other books include International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University, 2017), Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Regulating Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). I am also co-editor of the all-new fourth edition of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Poliltics and Uneven Development Under Hyperglobalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I received my PhD from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University in 2009. I tweet @ShaharHameiri.
Availability
- Professor Shahar Hameiri is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Murdoch University
- Bachelor (Honours), Murdoch University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University
Research interests
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Security governance, with a focus on the Asia Pacific
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Rising Powers
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Non-traditional security
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State transformation and new modes of governance
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Statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions
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The politics of risk management
Research impacts
I have been a regular contributor to the print, broadcast and electronic media in areas relating to my expertise.
I have also co-authored policy papers, most recently with Dr Lee Jones for Chatham House, debunking the myth that China startegically ensnares recipients of its development financing in a 'debt-trap' to enhance China's geopolitical objectives.
Works
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2007
Journal Article
Failed state or a failed paradigm? State capacity and the limits of institutionalism
Hameiri, Shahar (2007). Failed state or a failed paradigm? State capacity and the limits of institutionalism. Journal of International Relations and Development, 10 (2), 122-149. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jird.1800120
2007
Journal Article
The trouble with RAMSI: reexamining the roots of conflict in Solomon Islands
Hameiri, Shahar (2007). The trouble with RAMSI: reexamining the roots of conflict in Solomon Islands. The Contemporary Pacific, 19 (2), 409-441. doi: 10.1353/cp.2007.0052
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Countering China? Reactions to Chinese Geostrategy in India, Japan, and South Korea
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Percy
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Government-Linked Companies in Malaysia
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Investment De-Risking in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
PLANNING AND BUDGETING REFORM IN INDONESIA: GOVERNANCE, REGULATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Political Economy of Market-oriented Healthcare Reform in State-Socialist Asia: State, Interests, and Ideology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Adam Hannah
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Doctor Philosophy
Matrilineal Societies in the Borderlands
Associate Advisor
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Southeast Asian Regional Governance and the Domestic Politics of Portfolio Investment Liberalization: The Case of Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Melissa Curley
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Politics of Central Bank Approaches to Climate Change in East Asia and the West
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Ryan Walter
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Chinese peacebuilding practice in Myanmar
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Alexander Bellamy, Dr Sarah Teitt
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
China's Rising Influence in Cambodia: Local Contestation and State Responses
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Melissa Curley
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
`Nation as Village': Historicising the Authoritarian Populist Regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Heloise Weber
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Security as Politics: the US Securitisation of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Matt McDonald
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Contesting legitimacy: terrorist organisations and legitimacy-seeking behaviours
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrew Phillips, Professor Tim Dunne
Media
Enquiries
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- Asian security
- australian foreign policy
- development
- global governance
- politics of COVID-19
- regional politics in the Asia-Pacific
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